Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-15
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

CISCO, is a capital book on dining, table
manners, dress as an indication of charac-
ter, wedding customs, mourning observ-
auces, salutations, exchange of civilities,
etiquette for elderly girls" lodging house
living, etc. 1t is well-written book, sem
sible and plain-spoken. There is much of
it with which many people will take issue
but as whole, we incline to the belief that
Mrs. Sherwood's positions are strongly de-
feasible. Certainly there is hard sense
enough and good practical reason in the
book to com mend it to those who are
neither the slaves to fashion, nor yet sheer
at the formalities and rules that obtain in
good society, and by coed society we mean
the circles OF the intelligent, self-respect-
ing, polite and orderly people. with cult
waited tastes AMI fine sense of prophecies
and the fitness of things to time, place and
person. Some years ago the Harpers
published a to X entitled Social Etiquette
in New York Compared to the present
volume, it is not TO be mentioned in the
same breath, the work of Mrs. Sherwood is
so infinitely superior. Her chapter on the
use of the W RI lady" ought to be read
by every man or woman in the land
who has not already discovered
that ii is the worst taste imaginable to saw,
She is a beautiful lady," or "She is a
clever lady, instead of using that fine old
Saxon word, woman" But equally is the
word ;" ladies'" or lady" proper when
speaking of outside characteristics Thus
one would say ne was travelling with
ladles, or tnat ne look several ladies' to
the theater )" or, on coming into home he
would ask, Where are the young ladies ?"
and not say, young women"
Benjamin & Bell, of New York, publish
small volume, The Poets and Poetry of
America, a Satire (By Lavante, published
IN Philadelphia in lS47)," with an intro
duction TO prove that Lavante" was
Edgar A. Poe. An appendix of notes is by
Godfrey Quaily. The argument " that Poe
was the author of the satire" is summed
up in the heading of the introduction, -
roe tPoetl 7 roe lecce'Hricl : Lavante.
Alter laooreu, put not weak argument TO
prove zoe 10 nave oeen tne man who wrote
.1e sa'iie, lhe author 0! the INTRODUCTION
auus 10 IL supplement-, In winch ne dis
closes discovery OF cryptographlc order
ne ne mas haue that appears 10 prove anew
I II aut1or VI tne SATIRE 70 nave been zoe.
&c Nus INA. ou. oi iorty-t~o poems IN
oii5"oiu eui'ioii Vi roe WORKS, lhlrty-
siA nave tle poet name IN some form III
.o. Hsst VI iast INES: roe was given 10
iny e.lncation ABOUT hlmselI ana was the
. oohslI uctoI Vi acfostlc enlgnas containing
S cue naiies oarah ann An, Lewis ana frahces
"a sem Osgoou' Mhy NOT, tnen' look 1or
enc SET. VI tne authorship OF tSe satlre IN
enisluatlcai hnes; Accordingly, the last
c sinIa as nkely 10 De the repository OF
signature, IS taken
NO matter tnis-I VIII not ought retract.
IN these lines are easily found the words
Edgar Allen Poe" or these American
poets and poetry A SATIRE" or these, "a
satire, every word true! Edgar Allen Poe"
or these, "A true and honest satire, by
E9saL Alien roe: ms, however, is not
al the writer Oh the Introductory chapter
olscoVereo IN the satre out other evidences,
anasi aiiillic anu otnerwlse, tnat roe and
haVante were one.
The Russian Church and Russian Dis
sent, comprising Orthodoxy, Dissent and
Erratlc Sects. By Albert f. Heard form
erly Consul-General for Russia at Shanghai.
New York, Harper & Bros l vol. Svo., DID.
80. The work IS historical or consecutive
account of the Orthodox Church of Russia,
Its present condition and that of its clergy,
and the causes and consequences of the
schlsm which arose in the seven
teenth century. and still continues.
II considers in detail and exhaustively the
lnnumeraole sects, also, which sprang from
the schlsmatlc movement. No work of
TINS character or scope on the Russian
church has appeared. We have found it
entertaining, instructive, and in macy re-
spects pleasing surprise. We do not recall
a more attractive chapter in any work de-
scrlptlve OF any country than that in this
volume upon monasteries, monasticism,
the secular or white clergy, and the popes,
OF which there are 81 300 in Russia the
s ~ coiiuit ION VI tnese ciefSvmen, their
-,
fo ,;a III soc'e'y ior Tue pare neces-
'i.iea % me-
The9 Volcano Under the City," by a
volunteer special; is from the press of
fords, Howard d Hubert, New York;
lomo.' cioth, 81. 1t is dramatic and ade-
quate account OF the Draft-Riot of 1868
In New York, and consideration of par
aliels at this day which indicate the ap-
proach. II not the immediate presence of
perlis mat lmpend over New York and
most other large clues OF the Union. That
portion OF the volume devoted to
the conjecture OF what may be done
bonb 'ianiia, III. W w 'he dynamite
in lie s,,S5sstivan nv IT, - ;s'artling
tiona,Iv SiT;d in IT, nrnrh ooos Is sen .S
dancer of .narcb;o ,eaa gEpme'ytns VI the
onarnI;st aya ny 49, az VI heePihS tne
atnarGtss eie,nent uhder tne hand OF an-
crushed on the Aasb;O@ 9f .na 800 ~ can pe
alone The w;r rs ,hs ~ Single MORO
evil 5isnosed m,,st beue I onnso; says, me ne
the nerpat,,sl nrasenna Of eSnndo ol
in canabIe and nnhes;tat;n,. hana, po~ r
tbis n5nst ha adaad a., ass,lra,,' aa le -
mo nncorOn n auG an nante VI seaIcn-
at The hands Of indaes a and sr; ios9 JUSTICE
FRANZ T esl;a,s Snndau Macan;u
Oo,ohar = et 49, dn 7. maAlne tor
intsrest for Old and rnnnnan na, aucn oi
tbouehtfnj naner ai iS S gTuns1, leauel3 -
heads y bv I p Sin eSen uRoI n FORE
oenon,; let S T5opn intorastnd W. ~ ~ physl.
iI f;n5 stJ' IL .h $50 r, III 'ils SUBJECT
sn hi ,u nraso S,t tne ai.ie Anotner
is Footnrnts Of " t e1tis way
inc cpndensed bistorv of th 70? ;. oe-
fren, WiII;annshnrc W. =. ~ H. t EJ oIiHey
IN ING s@', " tue feuch iort